Critical Conversations in the Classrooms: Shootings & Anti-Black violence

Black Gaze

Dr. Porcher & Dr. Bertrand, co-host with Chanea Wells Bond and Dr. Courtney Rose to discuss ways to engage with students in classrooms (K-12 and teacher education) after anti-Black violence and shootings.

Chanea Wells Bond is an educator, a teacher and an eternal student. Her current graduate work focuses on increasing access to dual credit and advanced academic opportunities for Black and Brown students. She is an English teacher at Southwest High School in Fort Worth, Texas, whose professional work focuses on increasing access to diverse texts, affirming Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ student identities, and “being the teacher she needed.”

Dr. Courtney E. Rose is a Visiting Professor in the Education Policy Studies Department at Florida International University and the Founder of the educational consulting firm, Ivy Rose Consulting.. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Dr. Rose taught Math & Science for three years in the Duval County Public School system in Jacksonville, FL (two years of which were completed during her commitment as a Teach for America corps member). Currently, her research and work interests include the development and implementation of innovative approaches to social justice-oriented critical and culturally relevant instructional practices and curricular designs. Her student-driven approach to teacher education and development aims to provide teachers with new tools and understandings on how to incorporate youth culture into curriculum and instruction to better engage students in academic content and facilitate discussions rooted in issues of diversity and social justice. Adopting a culturally relevant/responsive framework, Dr. Rose views curricular designs and instructional practices as powerful tools through which to construct, legitimate and impose messages about what is appropriate, intelligent, and valuable and impacting students' views. Given this, her approach to teacher education/professional development aims to help educators and administrators develop or enhance their practices to bridge students' cultural, academic and social identities and co-create more meaningful learning experiences with and for the increasingly racially, culturally, socially, linguistically diverse students and families of today's schools, which is the focus of her upcoming book set to be released in March 2023.